Maiko Shimmura: 5 Questions for a Translator & Interpreter at Honda Motors
1) Tell us about your position as a Japanese-English translator & interpreter for Honda Motors.
I interpret simultaneously for the Purchasing Division's meetings related to cost planning and translate presentation documents and emails for the American associates stationed in Japan.
2) What are the most enjoyable moments of your job?
I have the opportunity to interpret for management level meetings which determine the future path of the company. It is exciting to be able to support such discussions!
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4/30: Spring Forum Offers Translation & Interpretation Students Opportunity to Practice Their Craft
“A Global Perspective on Drugs” is the topic of this year’s Spring Forum at the Monterey Institute. This unique event, hosted by the Institute’s Translation and Interpretation program, features ten speakers in seven different languages being simultaneously interpreted by Translation and Interpretation students, each addressing a different aspect of this very controversial and timely topic.
Interpretation Students Excited to Test Skills at TEDxMonterey
Of all the unique aspects of the TEDxMonterey conference at the Monterey Institute of International Studies this Friday, April 16, one of the most unusual is that the conference will be streamed live on the Internet not just in English, but in up to five languages at once.
Middlebury College Announces New Online Language Education Venture
This morning’s New York Times reports on a new agreement between Middlebury College and K12 Inc., a technology-based education company, to create and market innovative, high-quality online foreign language programs for pre-college students.
4/5: Microsoft’s Windows Localization Expert to Speak to MIIS Localization Students
Microsoft localization expert Ulrike Irmler, most recently the manager of the company’s efforts to launch translated and localized versions of Windows 7 throughout the world, will speak to Monterey Institute localization students Monday, April 5 on the Institute’s downtown Monterey campus. Irmler’s lecture, titled “Windows Localization - Language for Worldwide and Local Audiences,” is scheduled for 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Irvine Auditorium in the McCone Building at 499 Pierce Street, Monterey. Her lecture is free and open to the public.
Olympic Flame Led Student to Global Village at MIIS
Just a few weeks after the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games ended, Wangxing Zhao (MPA ’11) already has his sights set on the 2012 London Summer Olympics. After working in athletic services at the Beijing Games in 2008, and again this year in Vancouver, he freely admits to being obsessed with the Olympic Games. The excitement of meeting and engaging with people from all corners of the world is what appeals to Wangxing and also what drew him to the Monterey Institute. He is a daily member of the global community that exists on the MIIS campus every day.
翻訳・通訳
MIISの翻訳・通訳修士プログラムは、トップレベルのプロフェッショナルを育成しています。ビジネス、政府機関、そして、国際機関が文化や国境を越えて互いに理解し合えるよう、通訳者・翻訳者として異文化の架け橋となるための技術と知識の習得を目指します。
MIISの通訳・翻訳プログラムには、翻訳（T）、翻訳・通訳（T&I）、及び会議通訳（CI）の3 種類の修士号があります。特に会議通訳プログラムは世界トップの修士プログラムの一つとして、ジュネーブに本部を置く国際会議通訳者協会（AIIC）に認められています。
Institute’s Translation and Interpretation Program Lauded on Radio Free Europe
Interpretation is at the very core of UN operations, according to a recent feature story on Radio Free Europe, and the Monterey Institute is at the forefront of educating the UN’s language specialists. Quoted in the feature is Barry Slaughter Olsen, head of the conference interpretation program at what RFE cites as “California’s highly respected Monterey Institute of International Studies – from which a number of UN translators have graduated.”
MIIS Student Interpreting at the Winter Olympics Profiled in Local Weekly
Current translation and interpretation student Simone Bonneville (MACI ’11) is the subject of a profile in today’s edition of the Monterey County Weekly. Bonneville is one of 14 students, alumni, and current and former faculty from the Institute who are serving as translator/interpreters at the Vancouver, Canada Winter Olympic Games.
